Baidu Forms Major Alliance to Accelerate the Adoption of Autonomous Driving
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:
BIDU), announced today that more than 50 partners have joined the Apollo open autonomous driving project, forming one of the largest and most diverse autonomous driving ecosystems to accelerate the development and adoption of autonomous driving.
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Members of the Apollo alliance are from a wide range of sectors. They include leading vehicle manufacturers, such as Chery Automobile, FAW Group Corporation, Changan Automobile Group, and Great Wall Motors; tier 1 suppliers, including Bosch, Continental Automotive, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, and Desay SV Automotive, among others; key components providers, such as NVIDIA, Microsoft Cloud, ZTE, Velodyne and TomTom; startups, including AutonomouStuff and Horizon Robotics; and ridesharing companies, such as UCAR and Grab Taxi.
The alliance also extends to five top universities and six local governments, including Wuhu in Anhui Province, Baoding in Hebei Province, Yizhuang in Beijing, Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, and Shanghai International Automobile City.
Qi Lu, Baidu’s group president and COO, made the announcement earlier today in Beijing at Baidu Create, the company’s inaugural AI Developer Conference.
“Apollo is an important milestone for the automotive industry,” said Lu. “It is in essence the “Android” of the autonomous driving industry, but more open and more powerful.”
First announced in April, Apollo is an open platform that provides a comprehensive, secure, and reliable solution that supports all major features and functions of an autonomous vehicle. The project, named after the historic lunar landing program to illustrate its scale and complexity, consists of cloud services, an open software stack, along with reference hardware and vehicle platforms.
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